ADMIT
Yes, ADMIT was the Wordle answer on September 25, 2022 (Wordle #463).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪt/
- Verb
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To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration.
“to admit a serious thought into the mind”
- Verb
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To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.
“to admit an attorney to practice law”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English admitten, amitten, borrowed from Old French admettre, amettre (“to admit”), from Latin admittō (“to allow entrance, inlet”, literally “to send to”), from ad- + mittere (“to send”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHDMIHT.
Rhymes with SPLIT UNFIT BRITT REMIT REFIT
Related meanings
Synonyms take include hold ALLOW accept acknowledge
Opposites deny reject exclude
In a sentence
You have to admit that.
I admit I do that.
Use ADMIT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 25, 2022 (#463).
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ADMIT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,950 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ADMIT used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How ADMIT performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches ADMIT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ADMIT can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ADMIT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing ADMIT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ADMIT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ADMIT:
Research on ADMIT
Game-tree analysis and word research for ADMIT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ADMIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,644 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ADMIT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ADMIT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 38 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.0 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).